I'm going to ask my colleagues if they would look very closely at this amendment. It's not a radical amendment. It simply empowers those recipients of SNAP to buy very simple and basic items that are related to nutrition, such as toilet paper and toothpaste and toothbrushes and the like. I ask my colleagues to please allow an up-or-down vote on this and to vote ``aye'' on the amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.
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